Newcastle united Blog Archives for January 2017

Here are some photos taken during the training today and shown in the Chronicle there are some great photos of the lads preparing for the vital game at home to Wigan on Saturday and the lads certainly seem upbeat. Let's hope they are upbeat on Saturday and can win his game it's now [...]

The Chronicle is reporting today some good news on the injury front and it looks like of the four players who pulled out of Internationals over the two week break, three will be fit to face Wigan Athletic at home on Saturday afternoon at St. James' Park. Those three are Paul Dummett, Grant Hanley and [.

It looks like Alan Judge is no longer a target of Newcastle United as the news is that he signed a two-year contract extension with Brentford yesterday. Alan would have become a free agent in the summer and there was some possibility that Newcastle could sign him on a pre-contract agreement now and complete the [.

The two week boring International break is almost over and we will be into the last five weeks of the Championship season and will know soon enough if we can get promoted automatically back to the Premier League at the first attempt. But that will depend on Newcastle's ability to beat two bottom four teams [.

There was an interesting report in the Mail yesterday by Craig Hope in which he says the two transfer meetings Newcastle have had with Rafa Benitez have gone very well and it looks like money will be available to help Rafa build Newcastle's squad for our return (hopefully) back to the Premier League.

Newcastle were linked with Chelsea's 21 year-old midfielder Ruben Loftus-Cheek in January, but near the end of the transfer window Chelsea manager Antonio Conte decided he wanted the player to stay as part of the Chelsea first team squad at Stamford Bridge and fight for his place in the team. But now it appears Conte [.

Michael Carrick will son be getting a testimonial at Manchester United and he's been at the club since 2006 when he signed on from Tottenham for a cool £18M. Ferguson also managed Bryan Robson who was born in Chester-le-Street and Bryan started his career at West Brom before joining Manchester United in 1981 as a [.

Ayoze Perez singed on for us almost three years ago for £1.4M from Tenerife and hopefully his third season at Newcastle United will see the club promoted straight back to the Premier League. That's all Newcastle fans are thinking about right now getting enough points in our final eight games to finish in the [.

The Mirror is reporting today that West Ham want to sign Rafa Benitez in the summer after they had agreed to sign him almost two years ago, before he got a last minute offer from Real Madrid in June of 2015 and went to manage his home town club. It's not the first time Rafa [...]

Massadio Haidara could well be sold by Rafa Benitez in the summer as he has to make way for new players coming in who will strengthen the squad that's always assuming we can get promoted back to the Premier League. Massadio has only played 51 times for the first team in the four years [...]

When you are a world-class coach like Rafa Benitez, you will get requests from younger coaches to come watch your training sessions so they can learn from the experts in the game. On the other hand if you are not a good coach you will not be bothered too much by coaches wanting to learn [...]

Here's some Liverpool players, including former Newcastle midfielder Gini Wijnaldum, who try to recreate Papiss Cisse's famous second goal against Chelsea in May, 2012 when we hammered the Blues at Stamford Bridge 2-0. Papiss was so tired at the end of the game four minutes into stoppage time that he just shot when he got [.

There was another negative report from the Mirror this morning that Rafa Benitez could leave Newcastle for West Ham in the summer with the Hammers targeting the former Valencia and Liverpool manager if current manager Slaven Bilic doesn't produce improved results before the end of this season. At the beginning of the season when West [.

What drives a team in footballis its midfield engine and Newcastle need to strengthen thecentral midfield. Assuming we are promoted which is still not certain Newcastle will likely move ambitious;ly in the transfer market ifRafaBenitezgets his way and we hope he does. Rafa knows there are weaknesses in his side if Newcastle [.

The Chronicle is reporting today that Newcastle Managing Director Lee Charnley has been doing some business in China and the club are apparently looking to China to increase our commercial revenues. It's an area of Newcastle's financial portfolio that have never performed well in the past at least not compared to other top clubs [.

The death was announced today of Kath Cassidy, the legendary tea lady at Newcastle who served the club so magnificently over 50 years and died yesterday. Tributes have been pouring in after Kathy's passing at 90 years old. Kath Cassidy legendary tea lady has sadly passed away Kath loyally served the club for half [.

When Grant Hanleyagreed to come to Newcastle last summer, once we finally agreed a fee for him with Blackburn Rovers, he would have hoped to have played more than the 13 games he has played for the Magpies this season. Grant has been a little unlucky that both Ciaran Clark and captain Jamaal Lascelles have [.

With the season ending five weeks on Sunday and there still being eight games to play, any injuries now will likely mean the players will miss quite a few games. Some bad news on the injury front for Newcastle is that the injuries to both Daryl Murphy and Ciaran Clark are worse than first feared. [..

Both our Scottish Internationals Matt Ritchie and Grant Hanley managed not to play for Scotland over the Intentional break. Gordon Strachan surprisingly kept the in-form Matt Ritchie on the bench for both of Scotland's games for some strange reason and Grant Hanley had to pull out of the squad with a slight injury.

Matt Ritchie did not play over the International break for Scotland and while that puts some question marks on the wisdom of Scotland manager Gordon Strachan,Newcastle fans will be very happy that Matt didn't play. Not only is he fully fit, but he will be ready to score those goals for us in the vital [.

Newcastle's Dwight Gayle had been names on a three player shortlist for Championship Player of the Season with Brighton's Anthony Knockeart and Leeds United striker Chris Wood the other two to be recognized. It's a pity that Dwight has been injured recently but Dwight had 21 goals and one every 92 minutes compared to Chris [.

In late August last year it looked like Newcastle were going to sign Brentford play-maker Alan Judge. But once Newcastle found out that Alan would be out at least another five or six months with the double fracture of his right leg it was reported that Newcastle pulled out. It's not been clear since then [.

There are various ways in whichNewcastle fans have reacted to the news that Rafa Benitez wants to sign 27 year-old Swansea play-maker Gylfi Sigurdsson inthe summer. The potential signing is always assumingwe get promoted and there are some fans think we are getting ahead of ourselves since we still have 8 games to play this [.

Terry McDermott, the 65 year-old former Liverpool and Newcastle player has been interviewed in the Mirror today and he says it's so important that a club with the stature and history of Newcastle United keeps Rafa Benitez on board as the manager, so we can become a great team again. The former Assistant manager to [.

Massadio Haidara has been at Newcastle over four years now, since he signed on from Nancy in January of 2013 along with four other Frenchman. Moussa Sissoko, Mathieu Debuchy, Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa and Yoan Gouffran were the other four players signed with Haidara. But Haidara hasbeen out with one injury afteranother since then and he's only [.

There's news in the Sun today that Rafa Benitez wants to sign Swansea forward Gylfi Sigurdsson this summer and of course he was a former target of ours before he signed on at Tottenham in 2012. He has been playing excellent football in south Wales for the last three years and only recently said that [.

Matt Ritchie is one of the Newcastle players away on International duty and he has also been one of our key players this season, netting a good 13 goals for us and was one of the best of Rafa's signings last summer. In fact, along with other new signings Dwight Gayle and Ciaran Clark [...]

Adam Armstrong scored the winner after 71 minutes yesterday as the England U20 side beat France 1-0 in the Four Nations Tournament and it was the Newcastle striker who wasthe danger-man for England throughout the game, according to reports. Early in the game Armstrong's free kick from theedgeof the box was right on target and [.

Newcastle United are looking to add two strikers to the squad this summer who have Premier League experience according to the Chronicle today. It's true that we have missed too many chances this season and could have won more games if we could have put those chances away and obviously that has not [.

Isaac Hayden has turned out to be a stellarbuy for Newcastle afterwe picked him up from Arsenal for a measly £2.5M this summer. Rafa traveled to north London to talk to the player in earlysummer and Isaac said after their two hour meeting he had already decided to join Newcastle so impressed was he [.

Gallowgate Flags organizer Alex Hurst has been interviewed in the Chronicle and he has revealed there will be more flags on display for the first time at the important game against Leeds United on Good Friday 14th April which will be televised. Gallowgate Flags have shown some great initiative this season in reviving [.

Newcastle United manager RafaBenitez will want to bring in a good left-back this summer to challenge local lad Paul Dummett for the left-back spot next season. Paul has improved a lot this season and he's become a good defensive full-back and Rafa may want to bring in a more attacking left back as an alternative [.

Rafa has answered even more questions during the Chronicles' extended and exclusive interview with the Newcastle United manager. Overall Rafa seems to be satisfied with what he's achieved so far in such a short time-frame just over a year and we think he's done a tremendous job for the club. But there are [.

Newcastle are interested in Justin Kluivert, the 17 year-old son of our former striker Patrick Kluivert who played for Newcastle just one season in 2004-2005 and in 37 games he scored 13 goals. But when Patrick joined us on a free transfer, after spending six seasons at Barcelona, he was well past his best and [.

Here's a video of Aleksandar Mitrovic's goal for Serbia last night in their 3-1 win at Georgia in World Cup qualifying Group D and it put Serbia 2-1 up. The video isn't great bit the goal is and the video seems to work around the world. Who says this lad cannot score goals? In the [...]

Rafa Benitez has again praised the Newcastle fans for their magnificent support of the teamthis season when we will break the attendance record for the Championship and it will be something over 51,000. Home gates are sold out and we always take up our full allocation of away tickets and often the away games are [.

In the Chronicle's excellent exclusive question and answer interactions with Rafa Benitez, the manager has addressed some criticism from some Newcastle fans that he can betoo cautious in games. That probably comes from the way Kevin Keegan had Newcastle playing in the 1990s, when the only thing the team really thought about was scoring the [.

45 year-old Sky Sports' Football League correspondent Scott Minto has been interviewed in the Chronicle today and it's really interesting what he has to say about Rafa Benitez. Minto was a top player playing left-back for clubs like Chelsea (1994-1997) and Benfica (!997 1999) during his playing career and now he's a Sky Sports [.

Rafa Benitez had been interviewed by the Chronicle again today in what they are calling Part 2 of their exclusive interview with the Newcastle manager let's hope there are parts 3 and 4 to come. Rafa has again given written responses to the questions posed by the Chronicle journalists and there are some good [.

The Chronicle has conducted an exclusive question and answer with Newcastle manager Rafa Benitez today where the journalists submitted questions to the manager. Rafa has responded with written answers so in some cases he goes into some detail with his answers. The Newcastle fans have been magnificent this season in support of the team and [.

Some of us back in August thought we would almost walk away with the Championship this season but we were wrong again. Of course those first two games, when we lost both of them at Fulham and at home to Huddersfield at the time we thought were two mediocre sides level-set what [...]

With there not being too much news during these boring International break the Chronicle has rescued us all by conducting a long and very interesting interview with manager Rafa Benitez. Rafa is asked a number of questions and as usual he responds to each question with his real thought on thematter and they are also [.

Ayoze Perez has said something that Newcastle fans have been feeling for the last year Rafa Benitez at Newcastle can be something very special for the Newcastle United Football Club. While we haven't been as dominant as a number of us expected this season in the Championship, we are still at the top and [.

Newcastle United development manager Peter Beardsley has been singing the praises of a forgotten player at Newcastle Curtis Good. Curtis joined us from Melbourne Heartin the summer of 2012 for £400K and quite honestly he has had some horrendous injuries, which have kept him out of the squad for too long and he is [.

Newcastle are reported to be (possibly) interested in a move for Middlesbrough defender Ben Gibson and Ben has had an outstanding season for the Teesside club in the Premier League. But as usual some high fees are being talked about and apparently Middlesbroughnow want £20M for their 24 year-old who came through their Academy.

You cannot ever say that 25 year-old Bournemouth striker Callum Wilson has been lucky with injuries lately, but on the other hand they have shown what a tough and strong character he is. Callum suffered another serious ACL injury in early February to his left knee and will be out for the rest of the [.

Maybe it was the way he played almost two weeks ago at St. James' Park when he looked a very good player whatever it is Newcastle fans seem keen on the club signing Fulham midfielder Tom Cairney with the reports being he would cost Newcastle about £12M this summer. 83% of fans want Newcastle [...]

There's some good news from Rafa Benitez this morning that Isaac Hayden should be back in training at Newcastle in a few days and there has to be a very good chance he will be fit for our next game at home to Wigan a week on Saturday. It will be a welcomereturn for Hayden [...]

Newcastle have had some very good youngsters come through the YouthAcademy yet for onereason or another never make it to become a first team regular at the club. One player who has done that recently is Paul Dummett, who has become the regular left-back under Rafa Benitez. One player we had really high hopes for [.

Moussa Sissokokept infuriating Newcastle fans during his tenure at Newcastle when he kept talking to the French press about wanting to move to a big club who played in the Champions League. And then would say stuff like but I'm still at Newcastle at the moment but hope to join a big club one [...]

Newcastle definitely need to buy a top striker this summer and since Liverpool will want to unload Daniel Sturridge we will no doubt be linked with a move for this27 year-old former Chelsea striker. In fact there have already been reports out that Newcastle should go out and try to sign the 25 times capped [.

There's no doubt that our double acquisition of Jamaal Lascelles and Karl Darlow from Nottingham Forest for just £7M in the summer of 2014 has turned out to be a stellar buy for Newcastle. Jamaal is now the Newcastle captainat only 23 years-old and he is improving all the time under Rafa Benitez and his [.

Another injury blow to Newcastle yesterday when Daryl Murphy returned to the club with a calf injury after he left the Republic of Ireland squad and he is now doubtful for the vital game against Wigan a week on Saturday at home. Daryl had been sent for a scan on the injury by the Ireland [...]

Les Ferdinand has been visiting Newcastle and he has been interviewed in the Chronicle today. Les was part of that great Kevin Keegan side of the 1990s that thrilled not only Newcastle supporters but the rest of the football world in the way they played the game attacking other sides from the kick-off.

Karl Darlow has been one of the pleasant surprises this season in that he has performed a lot better than we expected. Maybe it shouldn't be that much of a surprise, after he came in over the last eight games of last season when Rob Elliot was injured and performed so well for us and [...]

50 year-old former Newcastle striker Les Ferdinand has tried to explain why the home results this seasonhave been so poor for Newcastle. We have lost five of our 18 home games this season yet away from home we have lost only three of the 20 games played. The latest set-back at St. James' Park was [.

The Sun is reporting that Newcastle United are keen on 28 year-old Burnley left-sided midfielder Scott Arfield, which comes as a bit of a surprise and we wonder if he's good enough. Arfield hasn't always been a starter for Burnley, but he is versatile which the Sun says is his main attraction that Newcastle are [.

Newcastle have been linked heavily with Hull City center-back Harry Maguire in the recent past and if the reports are to be believed Newcastleare in the driving seat to sign him once we are promoted back to the Premier League. We were also interested in signing 19 year-old Partizan Belgrade center-back Nikola Milenkovic, but he [.

Freddie Woodman is one the best young players at Newcastle and we look forward to seeing the 20 year-old develop into one of the top goalkeepers in England and at Newcastle of course. He's already played for the U16, U17, U18, U19, U20 and U21 England Youth sides and made 42 total appearances so far [.

Ayoze Perez had a decent game for us at Birmingham on Saturday in the disappointing 0-0 draw and hopefully the Spanish U21 International is in good form and can help us score some goals in the final 8 games of the season. Once things start up again on April 1st after the two week International [...]

After the disappointing draw at Birmingham last Saturday Rafa has more players injured with Grant Hanley the latest to pick up a knock and he's now back at Newcastle having withdrawn from the Scotland squad. Grant picked up the injury at Birmingham so it wasn't while he was training with Scotland and it's an ankle [.

If Newcastle are promoted back to the Premier League in May then it should be an exciting summer for Newcastle United fans, as RafaBenitez with the help of Lee Charnley will again transform the squad to make it more than just Premier League ready for next season. Rafa will want to finish somewhere in the [.

It looks like 20 year-old Newcastle goalkeeper Freddie Woodman has a great future ahead of him and he has already played 42 times for the various England youth sides through U21 level. He is the son of former Newcastle goalkeeper coach Andy Woodman and he has come along very well through the Newcastle Youth Academy [.

It's going to be an interesting pre-season thissummer given that Newcastle have made it back to the Premier League, because a number of loan players will return and try to prove to Rafathey have a future at Newcastle. One of those players will be Tim Krul who will be fighting to get the number one [.

Ciaran Clark will be staying on Tyneside to get attention for his knee injury and Mo Diame has now retired from International duty so he will also be on Tyneside for the next two weeks. And it turns out that two more Newcastle players Ireland goalkeeper Rob Elliot and Scotland center-back Grant Hanley have [.

A few of Newcastle's players currently have injuries Ciaran Clark and DeAndre Yedlin being the latest two injured. But players like Isaac Hayden and Rolando Aaron could be ready to play on April 1st when the Championship games continues and we play Wigan at home. Ciaran Clark is an important player for us and [.

Grant Hanley is a player who may not be fully appreciated at Newcastle and he could still have a good future under Rafa Benitez on Tyneside. Grant is a dour Scot and a leader both off and on the pitch and those are the type of individuals you want in any successful squad. Hanley is [...]

Only two Newcastle players have made the Championship Team of the Season Dwight Gayle and Jonjo Shelvey yet surprising Brighton have four players in the side. Not sure how Murray made the cut but their other three players Stockdale, Dunk and Knockeart are all good players. But Matt Richie and Ciaran Clark surely [.

The Mail is reporting today that Newcastle are very keen on signing Fulham midfielder Tom Cairney thissummer and that's hardly surprising after he put in an excellent performance last week in Fulham's surprising 3-1 win at St. James' Park. And Cairney's good form is finally getting some recognition as the 26-year-old was called up to [.

It was just one of thosedays yesterday when once again poor officiating in the Championship cost Newcastle three points as a Matt Ritchie goal in the first half was disallowed for offside but replays showedthe goal should have stood. That would have given Newcastle the goal they needed and all 3 points but surely this [.

It's not too surprising that Newcastle fans were split on thereaction to the draw at Birmingham yesterday when we were expected to beat an off-form Blues side. But we didn't, even though we had the chances to do that, but it was the same old story we missed chances and their goalkeeper was outstanding [.

There's what they are calling an exclusive in the Star today that Luke Shaw is not happy at Manchester United and would like to resurrect his career at another club this summer. That's hardly surprising with new manager Jose Mourinho having criticized the young left back several times this season in the press and [.

Wigan, Leeds and QPR are three teams who have won at St. Andrew's over the last month in the Championship, so we expected Newcastle to be able to take all 3 points yesterday. But the game ended up in a 0-0 draw a very disappointing result for the Magpies but Blues manager Gianfranco [...]

It turns out that Jonjo Shelvey had a high fever on Friday and wasn't passed fit to play yesterday. But he did start on the bench and we suppose in an emergency he came on for the final 12 minutes to try to help Newcastle get the winner. Rafa must have been tempted to start [...]

Newcastle were unlucky not to get the win yesterday, but it was still 2 points dropped and again the problem was too many chances missed. Our next games are at home to Wigan and Burton and we cannot keep dropping points against teams we shouldbe beating. It's getting to be that time of the season [.

Rafa Benitez has just named his starting eleven for the game at St. Andrew's this afternoon against Birmingham City and there's a surprise with Jonjo Shelvey sick and he starts on the bench. Mo Diame will play in central midfield with Jack Colback and let's hope we don't miss the creativity of Shelvey in this [.

With Huddersfield surprisingly beaten 4-0 last night at Bristol City, it's a great opportunity for Newcastle to go into the two week International break on 80 points from 38 games and be that much closerto an automatic promotion spot. Huddersfield remain 6 points behind Newcastle with both clubs having now played 37 games, so we [.

Rafa Benitez has given an update on the injuries to DeAndre Yedlin, Ciaran Clark and Paul Dummett and they don't seem as bad as first reported yesterday especially with 23 year-old Yedlin. It seems the American could be back in two or three weeks and with the International break of two weeks coming up, [.

Issac Hayden hasn't played for Newcastle since the game against Derby on 4th February and a couple of weeks after that game he underwent surgery on his ankle and he was expected to be put about four weeks initially. Ir's fair to say we have missed Isaac in the side since Newcastle tend to be [...]

Ciaran Clark is injured and will not play today at St. Andrew's against Birmingham and we would expect Grant Hanley to get the start in his place in central defense. However, Rafa Benitez talked yesterday about a man who seems to have been out in the cold this season at Newcastle 22 year-old Chancel [.

Here's the tweet Alan Shearer put out at the end of the Bristol City vs Huddersfield game last night that ended in a surprise 4-0 win for the 3rd bottom placed Robins side after they were 2-0 up at half time. That has given Newcastle a huge opportunity today to go 9 points above the [...]

Huddersfield dramatically lost 4-0 at Bristol City tonight with City starting the game 3rd bottom and the Terriers starting 3rd top of the Championship and the home side were 2-0 up at half time. This was nothing short of a stunning win for Bristol City and another shock result in the division. The Robins move [.

Rafa Benitez has given his press conference this afternoon for the important game atBirmingham City against a struggling Blues side under manager Gianfranco Zola. It was a rare off-day for most of the Newcastle players against Fulham and we hope it was just a blip a bad day at the office and the [.

David Prutton has a habit of not predicting a Newcastle win and when he does that we usually win the game as we did at both Brighton and Huddersfield recently. But after those two wins he relented and took us for a 1-0 win at Reading, but of course we dropped 2 points in [...]

Last season Newcastle had a losing mentality and they got that from losing so many games under head coach Steve McClaren. When Steve was finally fired in March of last year after managing 28 PL games, we had lost 16 of those games and won only 6 a 57% loss rate and a 21% [...]

Rafa Benitez has been working intensely with his players thisweek after the shock 3-1 defeat at home to Fulham last Saturday, when Newcastle could have put in their worst performance of the season and it doesn't help that we don't seem to play well at home. The other disturbing fact is we particularly don't play [.

Rafa Benitez is likely to make a few changes from the side that played so poorly last Saturday against Fulham to lose our 5th game at home this season this time by a score of 3-1. The defense needs to play a lot better and we will assume that Ciaran Clark is not available [...]

We've liked Daryl Murphy ever since he was signed at Newcastle because the former Ipswich players seems to be a class act. Rafa immediately let everybody know that Daryl was very good for the squad and trained hard in every training session and that he was happy with him. That's while Daryl wasn't even in [.

News today that Chris Coleman the Wales manager has left Newcastle left-back Paul Dummett our of the Wales squad because it turns out he has been playing through the pain barrier with a sore heel. In order to play Paul has had injections before the games and he needs a rest and hopefully he will [...

Partizan Belgrade center-back Nikola Milenkovic has agreed to join Fiorentina in the summer in a €5.1M (£4.4M)dealwith the dealbeing announced by the Partizan General Manager. Newcastle and Italian powerhouse Juventus were both linked with the Serbian international late last year with Newcastle being reported to be regularly watching the 6ft 5ins tall center-back.

This is not good news DeAndre Yedlin is now expected to be out for five weeks for Newcastle after having an assessment of his thigh injury in Los Angeles by the US team doctors. Initially it was thought he would be out for up to two weeks but that's not the case and he [...]

If Newcastle can get promoted back to the Premier League this season then it promises to be an exciting summer of recruitment for the club, but there's still an if with that promotion. Expect Newcastle to be linked with a number of players this summer (as usual) and most of the reports will not be [.

There was an interesting report in the Chronicle that Rafa Benitez will definitelynot be selling Aleksandar Mitrovic this summer. Given that Mitro has been upbeat of late when the news in the press has beenhis Newcastle career may be over, that may not come as too much of a shock to Newcastle fans.

Yoan Gouffran has given an interview with nufcTV and he talks about the conversations he had with Rafa Benitez lastsummer when Rafa told him he could find him a new club if that's what he wanted. But Rafa also told Yoan he was happy with him if he wanted so stay presumably because of [...]

There's some interesting news being reported in the Chronicle this afternoon with the transfer business said to be well on its way and we expect Newcastle main transfer targets have been identified already. But everything will be in limbo on that front until we knowwhich division we will be playing in next season.

Rafa Benitez has some work to do with his players this week and a lot of thatwork will be on the attitudes and temperaments of his players it's a mental thing that has shown Newcastle have a weakness this season when we play at home. It seems the players become anxious when things do [...]

Crunch time is coming for Newcastle United and our players have to show a mental toughness in every single game if we are to be promoted this season. We have lost 5 points in the last two games to Brighton and Huddersfield and we cannot slip up too many more times in the final 9 [...]

Rafa Benitez currently has a first team squad of 27 players but a number of them have not played too many games for us, although that could change by the end of the season. Players like Achraf Lazaar, Grant Hanley, Jesus Gamez and Daryl Murphy have not played too many games. But Daryl has now [...]

We are keeping a number of tables on Newcastle's progress this season and we thought it would be interesting to put some of the latest facts and figures out. The total transfers for the season were what Rafa and Lee Charnley achieved last summer since we did nothing in January. And if heaven forbid [.

It was good to see Newcastle goalkeeper Tim Krul get called up to the Netherland's provisional squad for the World Cup qualifying game against Bulgaria and the friendly against Italy later this month. That's especially true since Tim suffered his very serious ACL knee injury while playing for countryin a Europeanqualifying game a year last [.

Mo Diame has hinted that he was ready to retire from international football and his decision is final so the last game he played for his country was in January in the African Cup of Nations when he played the full game in the 2-2 draw with Algeria in Group B. Mo turns 30 in [...]

Rafa Benitez talked recently about bringing players through the Newcastle Academy, but the Newcastle manager is also very pragmatic and knows what works in football and what doesn't and he has said you cannot rely on the Academy for all your players. Rafa is talking about what the top teams have to do to [.

Rafa Benitez wants his players to only concentrate on each of the last nine games as it comes up and execute the game plan that will hopefully get us the win. We were hoping that at this stage of the season that we would be well clear of third place, but with Huddersfield continuing to [...]

Newcastle had the exact same number of points (77) seven years ago under Chris Hughton after 37 games played, but it's interesting that our goal difference seven years ago was better than today. We had scored more goals and conceded less goals than we have done this season. With Chris Hughton in charge we went [.

Local lad Paul Dummett is just one of the players who have improved their game under Rafa Benitez this season and so going into the summer our squad will be better than it wasat the beginning of the season. And with Rafa Benitez likely to get big money from owner Mike Ashley to improve the [...]

Rafa Benitez eats, sleeps and breathes football, so he is very well suited to be the manager of Newcastle United where the City is well known for its complete passion for football and everything revolves around its famous football club. It's been clear in the year Rafa has been at the club that he wants [.

The Sunday People have reported that Newcastle are all tracking the 22-year-old central midfielder Wylan Cyprien who came through the Lens Youth Academy and last summer moved to Nice. We reported yesterdayabout another French player Newcastle are reported after 18 year-old Saint-Etienne defender Mickael Nade.

Rafa Benitez will spend the week with his players seemingly determined to learn fully what happened in the game against Fulham on Saturday, when Newcastle didn't seem to turn up and we were well beaten by Fulham 3-1 the worst home defeat of the season with three goals conceded. One huge problem for Rafa [.

Daryl Murphy was our Man of the Match during the terrible defeat and display against Fulham on Saturday afternoon a display and result that shocked Geordie fans everywhere. It was widely thought to be our worst display of the seasonand it came at exactly the wrong time. After getting 7 pointsfrom games against three [.

Rafa Benitez has said there were no warning signs in training last week that might have explained why the team was so poor against Fulham on Saturday and lost 3-1 and we were well beaten. It could have been even worse when Newcastle conceded a third penalty in four games. but Fulham missed it [...]

It's not been a good 12 months for Steve McClaren and following the one year anniversary last Saturday of him being firedat Newcastle, the former England manager has been sacked for a second time in 21 months at Derby County. The announcement came last night. Steve started off well this time around at the Rams [.

Everything we will talk about as far as the summer transfer window is concerned will be assuming we can get promoted and after an alarming last couple of games both Brighton and Huddersfield have gained 5 points on us and it could be a struggle to get an automatic promotion place and as for the [...]

Rob Elliot has finally been recalled to the Republic of Ireland squad but it's only the provisional squad of 39 players and he is listed as one of four goalkeepers. The in-form Daryl Murphy and Ciaran Clark are also included, but Ciaran picked up a knee injury last Saturday so he has to be [...]

There are reports in France that Newcastle want to sign 18 year-old Saint Etienne defender Mickael Nade this summer. The 18-year-old has a contract at the French club that runs out this summer and it looks like Newcastle are moving in quickly to offer the player good terms and have him move to Tyneside in [.

Daryl Murphy came on yesterday after 61 minutes for Mo Diame and scored Newcastle's only goal after 76 minutes against Fulham and it was a very good goal too. Daryl now has 5 goals in only 12 total appearances for the Magpies which includes only 6 starts and he's our Man of the Match with [...]

After the rather significant trialsand tribulations of the last three or four years and especially the last couple of seasons, most Newcastle fans were hoping this season would be a fairly calm one when we would win a lot of games and we would get that automatic promotion back to the Premier League and as [.

In the last two games Newcastle have lost 5 points on both Brighton and Huddersfield and if the Terriers win their game in hand they will be only 3 points behind Newcastle. So with the shocking 3-1 defeat to Fulham laden with errors from Newcastle yesterday wewill have to fight for an automatic promotion spot [.

We are just hoping that another disaster scenario is not unfolding at Newcastle and that we end up not getting promoted this season after what was a terrible displays from our players yesterday in the 3-1 defeat at St. James' Park. We hope it's not getting too much for them and Rafa will have to [...

Here's the highlights of the game yesterday as Newcastle had a very bad day at the office and were easily beaten 3-1 by Fulham and they do the double on us. It was our 8th defeat of the season in the league and our 5th defeat at home. It's not good enough at this stage [...]

We just hope that Newcastle are not going to serve up another display like this one at St. James Park this season, because if that happens the unthinkable could happen and we'll not get promoted back to the Premier League. It's not even worth thinking about and Rafa has to get the lads back to [...]

Mick Quin just about sums up what every Newcastle fan must be thinking this morning, after the disaster that was Fulham yesterday. Exactly what is wrong with our players when they play at St. James Park in front of 52,000 fans they look half the team we see playing away from home. Unless Rafa [...]

Newcastle manager Rafa Benitez has just named his side for the tough game against Fulham this afternoon at St. James' Park. Fulham beat us 1-0 away in the first game this season and this is Rafa's one year anniversary at Newcastle so it would be extra special if we can win this game. Newcastle team: [.

We've looked through our records and as far as we can tell Newcastle have never been linked with German left-back Diego Contento,until L'Equipe reported in early January that both Newcastleand Sunderland were interestedin the player, who is of Italiandescent. The player was born in Munich and joined his home town clubback in 1995 and eventually [.

It is one year today that Rafa Benitez arrived at St. James' Park to sign on as we were struggling mightily with relegation and couldn't quite believe Benitez was going to become the Newcastle manager Steve McClaren had finally been fired only a couple of hours before Rafa arrived at St. James' Park.

It really need no explanation other than just putting in the table of what Rafa has done on the field in these last 365 days while he been manager of Newcastle United. Rafa doesn't need to use reasons (often called excuses) for his record, because it's a terrific record so far and after each game [..

We are hoping that Newcastle will win a number of their final 10 games of the season and get promoted back to the Premier League where we belong. And it's not surprising that Rafa Benitez has been interviewed a lot over the last day or two, since it is now exactly a year ago [...]

Brighton & Hove Albion won at home tonight against Derby County by 3-0 after being 2-0 up at half time and so draw level on points with newcastle with 77 points from 37 games played. Newcastle will play their game tomorrow afternoon and will now be top whatever happens but we need to wing the [..

Rafa will likely start another strong team for the visit of Fulham tomorrow at St. James' Park when we need a win to keep the pressure on at the top of the Championship. We don't do as well generally at home, so we hope we can start changing that against the Cottagers. DeAndre Yedlin. Isaac [...]

Newcastle were interested in signing Fulham's Tom Cairney in January, but not surprisingly Fulham boss Slavisa Jokanovic was not too keen to lose his best player half way through the season. To keep him at the club the Chronicle reported Fulham asked for a ridiculous £20M for their player, but the news today is that [.

While we don't think Rafa is really contemplating leaving Newcastle anytime soon, he was definitely not happy in January when the club refused to pay the asking price for Andros Townsend, when Crystal Palace wanted a £2M loan fee for half a season loan and then the full release clause of £13M for the England [.

Rafa Benitez has given his press conference this afternoon for the important game at home tomorrow to an an-form Fulham side. Newcastle have not done as well at home as away this season so hopefully with six home games still to play we can win most of them. Rafa has talked about striker Aleksandar Mitrovic [.

It looks like Newcastle could again be selling a number of big name players this summer, much like we did last summer and Rafa may even surprise us about the players he is willing to sell. There are a number of players who are not good enough for the team and they will be sold [...]

David Prutton doesn't seem to rate Newcastle too highly and for the game against both Brighton and Huddersfieldhe had the home teams down for a 2-1 win. After beating both of those teams it doesn't seem David's view of Newcastle has changed too much and for tomorrow's games he takes Brighton to beat Derby 2-1 [.

In the 19 games we have played away from home this season we have 42 points and that's 10 points better than the next best team away from home in the Championship Brighton. Butin home games we have only 36 pointsfrom 17 games and that's only 7th in the Championship with Brighton top with their [.

Huddersfield manager David Wagner has been named Sky Bet Championship Manager of the Month for February and he deserves the award for guiding the Terriers in that time to five wins and one draw in the six games played in the Championship. Rafa Benitez was a finalist, but wasn't expected to win as Rafa had [.

Matt Ritchie has been in great form for us this year and he now has 13 goals and he took up the slack on the goal-scoring front when Dwight Gayle was injured in mid-January at Brentford. Thankfully, Gayle is now back fit again and he may even start the game against Fulham on Saturday. Matt [...]

Rafa Benitez is a savvy person who has massive experience in football management and in coaching and he's wise enough to know nothing is ever done until it's mathematically certain such as promotion for instance. And we have seen in the Championship this season that on every game day things can change quickly and [.

Newcastle have only ten games still to play this season and before April 1st we have just two games to play at home on Saturday against Fulham and away at Birmingham the following Saturday followed by the two week International break. Starting April 1st we have 7 games in April and then one [...]

It's very important that Newcastle players don't think the job of promotion is done and dusted until we are over the line and then there will still be games to win if it's before the final game. That's the way Rafa is a winner thinks and he always wants to win every [...]

We feel a lot more confident in games when Newcastle play away from home because they seem more compact and the players seem under much less stress. But six of our remaining ten games of the season are at St. James' Park so they have to start producing at home and not drop points. The [...]

It's in the best interests of everybody associated with Newcastle that we win as many of the games as possible coming up, so we nail that promotion as soon as possible. Obviously it will be good for the fans because we can relax a little bit and more importantly it will also allow the club [...]

On Saturday Rafa Benitez celebrates one year at the helm of Newcastle United and he has managed in 53 total games and gained 31 wins for a win ratio of 58.5%. We have scored 100 goals in those 53 games and only conceded 47 goals for an overall goal difference of 53. Newcastle have lost [...]

When you hear somebody speak about their passion whatever it is be it singing, maths, running, swimming, astronomy or even football management it's always very interesting and commands your attention. That's because the person loves what they are talking about and they always come across very interesting and they think it's exciting [.

There's news in the Mirror today that Newcastle will try to sign Nottingham Forest Ben Osborn in the summer if we manage to get promotion back to the Premier League. As we get closer to promotion wins will do it Rafa and Lee Charnley will be talking closely about the targets and Rafa [...]

It wasn't an entertaining game last night at Reading but the Newcastle defense was again strong and that was our 18th clean sheet in the 43 total games we have played in all competitions this season. That's a massive improvement from last season and in our 36 league games this season we have conceded only [.

Newcastle had to settle for a draw last night at the Madejski Stadium but it could have been a much worse result with Reading's Garath McCleary hitting the cross bar in stoppage time with only seconds to play. It was a fairly even game with Reading as expected having most of the possession and the [.

DeAndre Yedlin was not available for the game last night and it looks like he will be out for a little while with Jesus Gamez getting a rare start last night at the Madejski Stadium in the 0-0 stalemate. Jesus is an experienced player and played quite well last night, but he tired in the [...]

Newcastle's lead at the top of the Championship was cut by 2 points to only 3 points last night as Brighton won 2-0 at Rotherham (Huddersfield won 1-0 at home to Aston Villa) and we could only draw 0-0 at 5th placed Reading. It was a decent game and Newcastle could and probably should have [...]

Rafa Benitez seemed pleased with the performance of his players last night and we came away with a point in a 0-0 draw at Reading, but probably should have had all 3 points. But Reading also had chances to win the game and given they hit the bar in the last few seconds of the [...]

The Newcastle fans were happy enough with the 0-0 draw last night and a number of them drove back from the Madejski Stadium in pouring rain but their passion and commitment to the club is outstanding. The away fans don't get the credit they deserve. We were a little disappointed we didn't get the [..

We were hoping for the win last night and of the last three games at least on paper it seems Reading was the easiest. But we cannot complain (and wont) and 7 points from 9 is a great return against three of the top five teams in the Championship all away from [...]

Newcastle have just 10 games to play now and we are 9 points ahead of 3rd placed Huddersfield in an automatic promotion place. Huddersfield have 11 games left and are on 68 points, so the most points they can get is 101 and they also have a much worse goal difference that's unlikely to change [...]

Rafa Benitez has just announced his team for the important tonight at the Madejski Stadium against Reading. TEAM NEWS: Here's how Newcastle United will line up at @ReadingFC tonight (kick-off 8pm GMT). #NUFC pic.twitter.com/bStsVz2v21 Newcastle United FC (@NUFC) March 7, 2017 This is what Rafa said yesterday about the Reading game and about the [.

There's an excellent report from Mark Douglas in the Chronicle today and one of the things he says is that Rafa Benitez has requested a personal face to face meeting with Mike Ashley at the end of the season. Presumably this is to get assurances from the owner on certain things after he seems to [...

It will be Rafa's one year anniversary at Newcastle on Saturday March 11th when we faceFulham at home and we need to get some revenge for the way we were beaten in thatvery first game at Craven Cottage. We did get some revenge in the last game at Huddersfield when we won 3-1 [...]

Dwight Gayle was not right when he played for about 30 minutes at home to Aston Villa on 20 February (15 days ago) and it seems he didn't think his hamstring was quite right. During that game he has complained of it feeling tight so as a caution Newcastle took him off to ensure no [...]

It seems Reading manager Jaap Stam likes to play mind games before games. So he has made it known that Newcastle have about 50 players in their squad, but in fact right now we have exactly half that figure available. That's just a slight exaggeration coming from the 44 year-old former Netherlands and Manchester United [.

Rafa Benitez joined Newcastle on Friday, 11th March last year so the one year anniversary is just four days away and will be on Saturday, when we play at home to Fulham. And Rafa has achieved a lot in the short 12 months he has been at the helm and the fans will likely [...]

Benitez was asked yesterday about what it was that has enabled him to equal the away win record of Newcastle in the second division, by getting our 13th away win in 18 games on Saturday at 3rd top Huddersfield Town. He responded that he recruited players who had both effort and attitude, but were also [.

Dwight Gayle has given an excellent interview with nufcTV today and the Walthamstow-born 27 year-old comes across very positively and extremely happy with life at the moment, after he became a father to a baby girl a couple of weeks in Newcastle and she will be brought up as a Geordie. What could possibly be [.

We don't think that Rafa Benitez will want to change his team too much after two tremendous wins in the last two games. Maybe he will rotate a coupe of players and we have Yedlin coming back in for Vurnon Anita at right back and Yoan Gouffran coming in for Christian Atsu on the wing. [...]

Rafa Benitez has given his press conference this afternoon for the important game at Reading tomorrow night and we are hoping we can make it three wins in a row away from home against another one of the top five clubs in the Championship. Rafa has come over very confident in the team today, but [...]

Newcastle will play at Reading tomorrow night in our third away game against top five opposition in 8 days. We are hoping Newcastle can make it three wins in a row and further push us towards our only goal this season promotion back to the Premier League. Newcastle have beaten Brighton 2-1 and Huddersfield [.

We had some excellent displaysby Newcastle players on Saturday afternoon in the great and important 3-1 win at Huddersfield. The team held out well against an in-form Terriers side and they needed a penalty to get on the scoring board and that was after 72 minutes. After that if looked like the Terriers had a [.

Newcastle stifled Huddersfield on Saturday at John Smith's Stadium and after watching the game a second time yesterday, that's the best way to describe it. Yes, the Terriers had lots of possession, but they didn't create any real worthwhile chances and had to rely on a penalty to score their goal and a fewlong-range efforts [.

When asked after the 2-1 win at Brighton last Tuesday night whether it would be the same again at Huddersfield on Saturday, Rafa hesitated and then said it would be a different kind of game because Huddersfield like to hold ontothe ball a lot and would have lots of possession. Rafa was right about that [.

Rafa Benitez' Newcastle team equaled one all-time club record last year when we went 9 wins in a row in all competitions, but then we shockingly lost 1-0 at home to Blackburn Rovers when they were 3rd bottom of the league. Our team was over-confident for that game and it will be a big surprise [...]

We cannot get too carried away and Rafa will ensure our players are ready to concentrate in all the 11 remaining games so we have a good chance to get that promotion which has been job one all season long. And certainly after we have beaten the top side and the 3rd played since over [...]

Rafa Benitez' game plan was to allow Huddersfield possession while guarding the middle of the defense and making rapid counter-attacks once we did get the ball. We've seen that strategy a number of times this season with teams like Manchester City who like a lot of possession of the ball, but often don't do too [.

The minutes from the recent Fans Forum meeting were released just before the game yesterday and they are generally positive and contain good news. It seems Newcastle have agreed a good deal with a new shirt sponsor and that will be announced soon. They also have a long term deal with Puma and the new [.

Newcastle pulled of their second great away win yesterday when we beat an in-form Huddersfield team 3-1 away to go 5 points ahead of second placed Brighton and 11 points ahead of 3rd placed Huddersfield. If there was ever any doubt who the best teamin the Championship is, then the last five days have shown [.

It seems that at least some Newcastle fans are waking up and then remembering what happened yesterday and then pinching themselves to make sure they are still here and haven't died and gone to heaven. But it's true, two massive wins over two teams who Sky Sports seem to support and like big time for [.

Here's the reaction of some of our former players to yesterday's great 3-1 win at Huddersfield. Next up are Reading on Tuesday night and Rafa's press conferencefor that game will come tomorrow afternoon at 1:00pm. It would be very good if we can make it three winsin a row away from home against three [.

It's always interesting to look at the opposition report of the game to see it from their point if view. The report in the Huddersfield Examiner last night had both of Newcastle's first half goals very dubious. It was a dubious penalty decision and then it looked like Daryl Murphy for the secondgoalkicked the ball [.

We've watched a few of the Hull City games this season and the player who has impressed us the most is their center-back Harry Maguire, who is not only a good defender but good from corners and good moving forward from defense with the ball. So it was good to see the Sun report today [...]

Newcastle fans took to Twitter after our second massive win in just five days and we beat the in-from Huddersfield Town side 3-1 this afternoon to go 5 points clear of Brighton at the top of the table and 11 points clear of Huddersfield in 3rd place although they have one game in hand on [...]

It was another massive win for Newcastle this afternoon at the impressive John Smith's Stadium and it seems Rafa Benitez has the lads surging at just the right time after the poor result at home against Bristol City last Saturday and we have since beaten both Brighton and Huddersfield two very good sides.

Rafa Benitez was pleased with the away performances at Brighton and at Huddersfield when we played what were the first and third teams in the league. The fact we won both games and Brighton lost at Nottingham Forest today means we are 5 points clear of the Seagulls and 11 points clear of 3rd placed [.

Rafa Benitez was cool, calm and collected after our second massive win in five days and although the Terriers had plenty of possession they didn't really threaten Newcastle much and their goals was a penalty. Rafa gives the players huge credit for this win. Here's Rafa's interview with Sky Sports after the game a [.

Newcastle United had their best win of the season against a side who were said to be the in-form team in the Championship and we won the game 3-1 after being 2-0 up at half time. Dwight Gayle scored from a penalty after 10 minutes then Daryl Murphy showed why he should have started with [...]

Brighton & Hove Albion slumped to a surprising 3-0 defeat at Nottingham Forest so that's 5 goals conceded in two games for what was the best defense in the Championship before the game last Tuesday at home to Newcastle United, which they lost 2-1. Two of the Forest goals came late in the game after [.

Rafa Benitez has just announced his team for the crucial game at Huddersfield Town this afternoon and Rafa has made twochanges Vurnon Anita and Daryl Murphy both start and Yoan Gouffran and DeAndre Yedline drop to the bench. TEAM NEWS: Here's how Newcastle United will line up at @htafcdotcom this afternoon (kick-off 5:30pm GMT).

It's almost certain that Chancel Mbemba will be leaving Newcastle this summer, since he hasn't had much of a look in this season under Rafa Benitez and the last two times he has played both defeats he has played poorly. And it may even be that Grant Hanley could move on although Hanley is [...]

Rafa Benitez had some good news in his press conference early yesterday afternoon when he said Dwight Gayle was fit and he had been pleased with him in training this week and that he was in the squad. Only Rolando Aarons and Isaac Hayden are now out of the squad and both could return for [...]

In the last two games Christian Atsu has been our Man of the Match and the popular African player has started to do really well at Newcastle. When asked about Christian yesterday during his interviews with the local press, Rafa said it was simple for Atsu if he plays today at Huddersfield he needs [.

Chris Woods scored two goals last night in Leeds 3-1 win at Birmingham to put them in 4th place on 64 points after 35 games 9 points behind us and we have a better goal difference. Woods now has 22 goals and is top of the Championship scoring list although he has played 14 [...]

In the first 21 games of this season we either won or lost games that was until we drew 1-1 at Aston Villa and they equalized in the last minute of that game at Villa Park. However in the last eight games we have three draws and five wins, so if we cannot win [...]

Rafa said early this afternoon he had been pleased with Dwight Gayle in training over the last three days and that he has looked good and seems to have his confidence back and he's in the squad for the game at Huddersfield tomorrow. It's not clear if Rafa will start Dwight tomorrow but we think [...]

There was some really good news form Rafa Benitez at his press conference this afternoon when he said DwightGayle is in the squad for the vital game at Huddersfield tomorrow afternoon. Gayle has been training well for the last three days and Rafa seems to be very happy with him. Whether he will start tomorrow [.

Newcastle United are starting to look like a very well-run club these days and they are starting to pay attention to the fans'needs and the way they are televising the full 90 minutes ofrecent games is outstanding. And today they have reached 1M followers on their very popular Twitter account. Congratulations to the club and [.

Rafa Benitez has just completed his press conference for maybe our toughestleague game of the season atHuddersfield tomorrow afternoon in the late kick-off game. The big news from the press conference is that Dwight Gayleis fine and he's in the squad so that's really positive news from the manager this afternoon.

Paul Dummett has improved this season under the coaching of Rafa Benitez and a number of our other players have too and they will be better players next season than they have been this season. But it's been some experience in the Championship, which must be the toughest football league in the world to [.

Ayoze Perez scored the most important goal that he has ever scored for Newcastle on Tuesday nightwhen he calmly converted a pass from Christian Atsu who also stayed calm to pick out an unmarked Perez in the penalty box. The move was started off by a fantastic cross field pass from Matt Ritchie that picked [.

David Prutton may be biased against Newcastle in his EFL predictions and he seemed fairly convinced that Brighton would beat Newcastle on Tuesday night. He predicted a 2-1 win for Brighton and said he was worried about Newcastle without Dwight Gayle in the side. Generally David's predictions are fairly decent but he got it wrong [.

We have all been so impressed with Bradley Lowery's courage and bravery in his fight against neuroblastoma cancer and there's some good news about Bradley today as pointed out in Chronicle Live. There's some encouragement for the always upbeat five year old Sunderland fan today, who certainly hasn't given up his fight against cancer.

Rafa will give his press conference at 1:00 pm today and the first question from the local journalists is likely to be what the status of striker DwightGayle is and whether he is in the squad for tomorrow's vitally important game at Huddersfield. Rafa has been unwilling to put Dwightin the squad until he is [.

Tim Krul was recently blasted for allowing seven goals in with nine shots on target against Lyon in the Europa League, when they lost the second leg of the tie 7-1 in France after losing the first leg 4-1. But the life of a goalkeeper tends to be up and down as Karl Darlow has [...]

An advantage Newcastle had on Tuesday night was that they had played very poorly against Bristol City in the first half and dug a hole which we were not able to get out of although the lads fought back well to get a points and a 2-2 draw. But that was 2 points lost [...]

Sky Sports pundit Don Goodman has identified Jonjo Shelvey as Newcastle's most important (key) player and he admits he has skipped maybe a more obvious choice in 20 goal scorer Dwight Gayle. But after all, since Dwight has been out since the game at Brentford apart from an aborted 31 minutes against Aston Villa [.

There's a reason why Rafa has been so successful in football management the profession he seems tohave been made for and that he is extremely ambitious and single-minded in reaching his goals. And as manager of a big club like Newcastle United, who have been a sleeping giant for far too long, he [.

This is the appropriate tweet goalscorer Ayoze Perez put out after the 2-1 win at Brighton and he captures how Rafa Benitez has created a real team at Newcastle. A team where all the lads seem to support each other on and off the field and they all celebrate wins together and take the defeats [...]

It's no secret that Christian Atsu just loves it at Newcastle and after he had brilliantly set up the winner with Matt Ritchie for Ayoze Perez he went berserk. The Spanish forward took the chance with aplomb that sent Newcastle fans around the world jumping off their seats in ecstasy Christian must be a [.

It may be even a bigger game on Saturday than the game at Brighton was on Tuesday night and that's because we are going up against the 3rd placed side in the league. A win at the John Smith's Stadium on Saturday afternoon will put us 3 more points clear in an automatic promotion spot [...]

I've been banned from talking to my wife Madeline about Rafa Benitez. Such is the price one has to pay in domestic life when we have a manager that's as good as Rafa is. It seems Madeline's just sick of hearing me describe how good Rafa is. Yes I know it's all very strange [...]

We hope that Dwight Gayle has regained his confidence that his hamstring has in fact fully healed and that he can have the right attitude to play in the game against the Terriers on Saturday afternoon and there's no doubt that game will be just as hard as at Brighton last night. In fact [...]

There were a number of excellent performances from Newcastle players last night in the dramatic 2-1 win at the Amex Stadium in Brighton, which put Newcastle back on top of the Championship after being displaced for only four days following our 2-2 at home to Bristol City on Saturday. For the second game running Ghanaian [.

Here are some photographs of last night's sensational Newcastle 2-1 win at Brighton & Hove Albion in a game that clearly showed Newcastle and Brighton are the best two sides in the Championship. Credit to both sides and to both sets of fans for putting on a fabulous game. A fantastic shot of Christian Atsu, [.

Chris Hughton was at Newcastle for about three years after joining Kevin Keegan in February, 2008. In his last 18 months on Tyneside he took over the side in the summer of 2009 after we had just been relegated and then brilliantly managed the side to promotion with 102 points and 30 wins in the [...]

Rafa Benitez seemed to be upset on the touchline nearly for the whole game last night which is strange for Rafa. But maybe it was the refereeing again which wasn't great and it was Robert Madley one of the youngest referees in the Premier league at just 31 who had given Brighton a [...]

Here's the Sky Sports video highlights of the amazing Championship game last night when Newcastle put Brighton under more and more pressure in that second half and scored two late goals to win the game 2-1. Referee Robert Madley again didn't show himself to be a Newcastle fan as he gave a very dubious penalty [.

Robert Madley gave a really soft penalty to the home side last night when after 14 minutes he pointed to the penalty spot having adjudged that Ciaran Clark had fouled Glenn Murray when a corner was coming over and we noticed last night Murray is adept at falling down in the penalty box. On BeIN [...]

It was probably our best and most important win of the seasonand it came away from home as we powered back from being 1-0 down after only 14 minutes to getting two goals in the last nine minutes of the game at Brightonlast night to surge once again to the top of the table with [...]

Chris Hughton will always be remembered for the fantastic job he did to get us promoted in 2010. And then he was ruthlessly dismissed in that December by then Managing Director Derek LLambias, but the London man is held in high esteem by Newcastle fans. Chris is down to earth after games too, although he [.

After the game last night former striker Mick Quin thought that Newcastle thoroughly deserved their come from behind win at the Amex Stadium. After going behind 1-0 after 14 minutes Newcastle came back strongly in the second half and pressed Brighton all the way and we managed to get two vital goals in the last [.

Newcastle fans took to Twitter again this morning and it looks like it's going to be a good day for Newcastle fans and an especially good day in Newcastle. It's reported that people aregoing around with huge smiles on their faces after the fantastic come from behind 2-1 win at Brighton last night. There are [.

Karl Darlow's performance last night cannot be underestimated as he made about six great saves that kept us in the game and only 1-0 down. If he hadn't made those saves then heaven knows what may have happened. Karl was great for us and he makes the EFL team of the week for that performance. [...]